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Instructor who showed Prophet Muhammad images sues Hamline University; school officials say calling it Islamophobic was flawed

ST. PAUL, Minn. — A former art instructor who showed images of the Prophet Muhammad in class has sued Hamline University, saying administrators defamed her and reneged on an offer to teach in the spring semester.

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Hamline Adjunct Fired for Showing Muhammad Images Sues + Hamline Statement Seems to Backtrack

The Pioneer Press (Josh Verges) reports [UPDATE: see also the Complaint]: The adjunct professor accused of Islamophobia for showing artwork in class that depicted the Prophet Muhammad filed a lawsuit against Hamline University on Tuesday as Hamline's president conceded the school mishandled the controversy. Professor Erika Lopez Prater is suing…

Reason

Spain and the Hispanic World review – royals, chinchillas, bullfights and blood

A beautiful Velázquez, fascinating maps, glazed pottery from Muslim craftsmen … US collector Archer Huntington amassed stupendous works – but is there more to this show than the spoils of one man’s grand tour?

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Islamophobia: Pig heads left outside a mosque in South Korea

A group of Muslim students living in Daegu, South Korea have been meeting to pray at a home near their university since 2014. In late 2020, they got permission to renovate the house and turn it into a mosque to better accommodate Muslims in the area. But their plans have…

France 24

TV tonight: a sobering look at Narendra Modi’s treatment of India’s Muslims

A two-parter examines the impact of the hard-right populist’s Hindu nationalism. Plus: 24 Hours in A&E. Here’s what to watch tonight

The Guardian - UK

No problem renting, but don’t sell to Muslims: Meet the lawyer named in Brahmpuri posters

Early last week, a set of posters mysteriously appeared in Delhi’s Brahmpuri, a locality in northeast Delhi that was the scene of the communal riots that ravaged the capital in February 2020.

Newslaundry

Hamline University under fire for art professor's dismissal

A Minnesota university’s dismissal of a professor for including depictions of the Prophet Muhammad in a global art course has put the small, private school at the center of a debate over how to include controversial material in college courses while respecting students’ personal relationship to the material

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Bodies falling out of coffins as pallbearers trip over in 'horrifying' flooded cemetery

At least two dead bodies have been sent flying in the Muslim section of Bedminster Down Cemetery in Bristol in muddy conditions due to water-logging issues with the turf

Daily Mirror

Robin Abcarian: Firing an art history professor for showing students an image of the Prophet Muhammad is out of line

The art history instructor was diligent, empathetic and sensitive. She gave plenty of warning, including in her class syllabus, letting her students know ahead of time that she planned to show them ancient depictions of the Prophet Muhammad as part of her global art history course at Hamline University, a…

Los Angeles Times

How India's ruling party is tightening its grip on Kashmir

For the first time in her life, Asha, a street cleaner in the Indian city of Jammu, will be allowed to vote in upcoming local elections. And she's in no doubt who will get her ballot.

Reuters

Fury over waterlogged graves and slippery footpaths at Bristol Cemetery

Community leaders say on more than one occasion those carrying the coffin slipped and the deceased fell out of the coffin

Bristol Post

Austria drops bogus ‘terrorism’ charges against Muslim academic

Farid Hafez tells Al Jazeera the accusations against him aimed to ‘silence’ critics of Austria’s anti-Muslim measures.

Al Jazeera

Uttar Pradesh To Send Over 30,000 Pilgrims For Hajj This Year

A record number of over 30,000 Muslims from Uttar Pradesh will undertake Hajj pilgrimage this year, announced the Uttar Pradesh Hajj Committe on Tuesday, adding that women pilgrims will be able to go without a mahram- a man who accompanies a woman on the journey for Hajj. Read on for…

Dynamite News

MWL Lauds Great Islamic Interaction with the Makkah Document

The Secretary General of the Muslim World League (MWL), Sheikh Mohammed al-Issa, appreciated the Makkah document's endorsement by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) countries. The Document is set to benefit the OIC's religious, educational, and cultural institutions. Issa praised its adoption in training imams, especially in countries with Islamic…

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Muslim Public Affairs Council Statement of Support for Hamline Professor Who Showed Muhammad Paintings

From the statement: It is with great concern that the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) views the firing of an art professor, Erika López Prater, from Hamline University on the grounds of showing a fourteenth-century painting depicting the Prophet Muḥammad. We issue this statement of support for the professor and…

The Conversation

Islamic paintings of the Prophet Muhammad are an important piece of history – here's why art historians teach them

Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, recently dismissed Erika López Prater, an adjunct faculty member, for showing two historical Islamic paintings of the Prophet Muhammad in her global survey of art history. Following complaints from some Muslim students, university administrators described such images as disrespectful and Islamophobic.

Reuters

Bosnian Serbs celebrate holiday banned by court

Bosnian Serbs celebrated their autonomous republic's statehood day on Monday with a parade of armed police, special forces and armoured vehicles in a town adjoining Sarajevo, despite the holiday being banned and legal complaints by Muslim Bosniaks.

The Independent UK

Outrage as art history professor fired for showing medieval paintings of prophet Muhammad in class

Erika López Prater says she took many precautions before showing paintings of the prophet

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Liverpool Echo

Part of Merseyside to feature in BBC documentary

"I was surprised such a small organisation would get national attention"

360info

How riots formed Kolkata's ghettos

Communal violence has led to clear territorial demarcation of space, access, and resources, marking the everyday experience of minority citizenship in Kolkata.

The Independent UK

Over 150 Rohingya refugees reach ashore in Indonesia

More than 100 weak and hungry Rohingya Muslim refugees are among the latest group to reach ashore in Indonesia after a long and dangerous journey aboard a wooden boat

Daily Mirror

Prince Harry claims he was taunted about Diana's death by comrades in Army training

The Duke of Sussex says captors told him Princess Diana was pregnant with a 'Muslim baby' when she died during an Army training exercise on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall

Daily Mirror

'As a British Muslim, Harry's revelation makes me recoil and him look like a cold killer'

Writer and commentator Anila Baig says Prince Harry's claim in his book Spare that he killed 25 Taliban Afghan Muslims is dehumanising and makes him look like a cold-hearted killer

The Guardian - UK

‘Give us the stage and trust us’: how a British-Somali play became a sell-out smash hit

The lack of roles for Somali and Muslim women led writer and actor Sabrina Ali to create her own. Her latest play Dugsi Dayz, set in an Islamic study group, has struck a chord with audiences

Newslaundry

‘Why teach Urdu to children studying Sanskrit?’: On the ground in Bareilly over Iqbal poem row

Two weeks after he filed a police complaint against a school for trying to “convert” students because they recited a poem by a Muslim poet, Sompal Rathore is pleased with how events unfolded.

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